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 I think my main criticism of Tesla is the reliance on minerals sourced from Child labor. Granted it is a Chinese company that builds the batteries for the “green tech revolution” the Coltan and copper used to make these products comes from a city called Kolwesii in the south of the Congo. It is normal for kids to skip education to work for 1.50$ a day hauling sacks of coltan out of mines to sell to Chinese companies. Think of the kids! I recommend reading “Behold a pale horse by William Cooper, It is a pretty good book from the 90s that uncovered a lot of high level military science and research going on around underground boring, Space and rocket science, And other government secret DARPA programs. Elon Musk is just a billionaire the corporations can slap debt on to get their programs available to the general public. Only a Saudi Prince needs a tunnel bored to hide his vault of gold in the Swiss Alps. But a direct partnership with the US Military looks pretty suspicious when building something like that. Google Majestic-12 or the JASON society.